New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1887-09-03
THE COERCION QUAGMlRE.
TORIES s,NK IN IT DEEPER AND DEEPER.
THE PROCLAMATION OF THE ENNIS MEETNG-MR
xrAsHorK's PRESENCE AT THE GATHERING
PROBABLE BLooDsHED THE OUT
COME OF THE GOVERN
uFNTs policy.
rBY CABLE TO TIE TRIBUNE.l


Copyrtgnt; 1887 The Ne,p- York Tribune.
LONDON. Sept. 2.-From all the signs 1t Is ap-
parent that it will not be very long untll the
Government chin deep in the quagmire Oh
Coercion They may talk in the House oi
Commons as they please, as they did last night
for exampIe, when the proclamation Oh the
Ennis meeting was discussed, about their inten-
ton of using their coercive powers with modera-
ton, but it is not the representatives of the
Government in Parliament but the officials OF
Dublin Castle who run the machine in Ireland
once Parliament has gone into recess. Even
before Parliament has adjourned these gentlemen
are giving us a taste of their quality. The pro-
clamation of the Ennis meeting Is the NEST
notable earnest of their Intentions, the prosecu-
ton of the brother Of Mr.. Luke Hayden NJ. p,
and twenty-five others for the crime of witnessing
an eviction is the next. while equally significant
In their own way are the prosecutions of Mr..
William O'Brien NJ. p, aud the carrying out OF
the Herbertstown evctions, in spite of the clause
of the Land Act which intended to put
O stop to these barbarous proceedings.
The meeting at Ballycoree nea? Ennis has been
called for weeks past Its object was purely
political, to express renewed confidence in Mr..
ParnelL to thank Mr.. Gladstone and the demcc-
racy Of England for their support and to discuss
the new Land Act and its principal feat
ure was to have been the presence
of the Hon. Philip Stanhope. an English Meuber
of Parliament, who has the piquant distinction of
being Radical Home Ruler and brother of Tory
Cabinet Minister, the Secretary of State for War.
This probably is the secret of the proclama-
ton. The Castle folk do not want
these English members to come to Ireland during
the Coercion regime. and the suppression of this
meeting is an attempt to friyhten then off. Mr.
pnth ha fri ad off He
has already departed for Ennis. Mr.. Dillon and
MIR. O'Brien win also be there on Sunday.
The meeting will be held in
spite of the proclamation which
by the way is an illegal one, the Government
having no power under the Coercion Act
to suppress public meeting, and the result
will probably be. if not bloodshed intense excite
ment and irritation and two three meetings held
in the neIghborhood instead of one
The proclamation of this meeting is another
of the manv proofs Of the hollowness
of the Governments assertion that tie
Coercion Act was intended to put down crime
and not to be of suppressng free speech
or free political agitation The prosecution of Mr.
HAYDEN and the Others for attending the Tang
evictions proves that the Government
intends to attempt to put an end
to the demonstrations at evictloDs which
have been attracting SO much public atten-
ton to these scenes by making attendance al these
demonstrations q criminal offence. The
Herbertstown evictlons show that
in spite of the Laud Act they
are wiling to help vicious landlords to push the law
to it's most cruel extremity. and the prosecution
of Mr.. William O'BrIen is an in
dication that they determined to
make war upon the tenants only defence against
rack re nts. nrmely the right of combination.
All this programme. need hardly saw is very
large ORDER and we confident the Government
will never be able to execute it; but it will, all
the same. cause turmoil and disorder IN Ireland
and is presage of ugly work for the winter
L. p. GILL, NJ. p.